Re: Installing on a second disk (hdb)

2002-02-08 Thread Michael C. Alonzo
On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 09:01:22AM -0800, Harris, Jason wrote: > on an already running system ? I'm getting a fair amount of disk seek > timeout messages in the kernel log and I'd like to rebuild the system with a > new HD. But I'd also like to have it down for the least amount of time > possibl

RE: Installing on a second disk (hdb)

2002-02-08 Thread Kurc, Marcin A.
attache the new hd as hdb, partition it and copy everything from hda for example: mount /dev/hdb2 /mnt cd / find . -xdev |cpio -oc > /mnt/hda.cpio.gz then mount all of your newly created partitions on hdb in one dir, go to the mountpoint and unpack cpio -icdm < /mnt/hda.cpio.gz edit fstab, lilo.c